# Most Underrated Sitcom of All-time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 11, 2005, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-sitcom-of-all-time/311955 "2005-07-11T06:47:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-sitcom-of-all-time/311955/81 "2005-07-13T13:03:47Z")
> [@Ezekiel25:17](#): > > I’m starting to lose faith in the SDMB. It took 39 posts to get to **Sports Night**!?! To me, _Sports Night_ is one of the most overrated cult favourites. It’s just people talking fast and repeating themselves. If they spoke the same dialogue at a normal pace, little of it would have been funny. ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-sitcom-of-all-time/311955/82 "2005-07-13T13:10:22Z")
While I agree with most of the choices on here, I’ll pick one off the board and say **Grounded for Life** was an outstanding series that got canned off of one network, moved to UPN losing a couple of key supporting actors, and still managed to hang on, though not as brightly as its first seasons. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-sitcom-of-all-time/311955/83 "2005-07-13T13:27:55Z")
**Greg. The. Bunny.** ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-sitcom-of-all-time/311955/84 "2005-07-13T13:31:20Z")
> [@ScubaSteve](#): > > No **Scrubs** until midseason? I’m officially starting to hate NBC. The reason they’re delaying new Scrubs is that Zach Braff is doing two movies. ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-sitcom-of-all-time/311955/85 "2005-07-13T21:48:52Z")
**The Larry Sanders Show** , followed closely by **The Slap Maxwell Story**. ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-sitcom-of-all-time/311955/86 "2005-07-14T00:07:02Z")
> [@teela brown](#): > > I really loved the show **Frank’s Place** , which had a short life in the mid-80’s. It inherited the actor Tim Reid and, IIRC, some of the same writers and other people behind **WKRP**. I believe the critics liked it, as well, but it was canceled pretty quickly. And I can find virtually no one else who remembers this show. I remember it. It was great. It was my first thought when I saw this thread title. Happy to see that I wasn’t the first to mention it. It was one of those slightly quirky, out-of-the-ordinary, not your run-of-the-mill shows that needed time to build an audience, but the network didn’t give it that time. A shame. ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-sitcom-of-all-time/311955/87 "2005-07-14T00:09:52Z")
> [@bdgr](#): > > key west. > > It so sucked that that one didn’t make it. I really like it too, but it wasn’t really a sitcom. It was an hour-long “dramedy”. Still, another great show killed before its time. ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-sitcom-of-all-time/311955/88 "2005-07-14T00:17:12Z")
> [@Ezekiel25:17](#): > > I’m starting to lose faith in the SDMB. It took 39 posts to get to **Sports Night**!?! Hey, 87 and still no mention of **ER**. No, not the George Clooney drama, but a little-known sitcom from the early eighties starring Elliott Gould. Funny as all hell. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-sitcom-of-all-time/311955/89 "2005-07-14T02:48:19Z")
Roadfood writes: \> . . . a little-known sitcom from the early eighties starring Elliott Gould . . . And also featured George Clooney (although not as the star). ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-sitcom-of-all-time/311955/90 "2005-07-14T13:45:54Z")
> [@Roadfood](#): > > Hey, 87 and still no mention of **ER**. _ER_, underrated? Isn’t a key characteristic of an underrated program that it doesn’t get the popularity it deserves? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-sitcom-of-all-time/311955/91 "2005-07-14T13:46:55Z")
D’oh! Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-sitcom-of-all-time/311955/92 "2005-07-14T13:49:13Z")
_House Calls_ with Capt. “Trapper” John and Lynn Redgrave. _Grandpa Goes to Washington_ with Jack Albertson and Maj. Frank Burns. _Quark_ with Richard Benjamin. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-sitcom-of-all-time/311955/93 "2005-07-14T15:28:06Z")
> [@TommyTutone](#): > > While I agree with most of the choices on here, I’ll pick one off the board and say **Grounded for Life** was an outstanding series that got canned off of one network, moved to UPN losing a couple of key supporting actors, and still managed to hang on, though not as brightly as its first seasons. And they added a laugh track when it got moved – a terrible decision. That’s a TOTALLY underrated sitcom. One of the few where the kids were actually a little funny. Also check out the movie “The Tao of Steve” if you haven’t, stars Donal Logue . I second, or third, **Married With Children**. This show is top 5 for some of the sharpest writing and well defined characters in a TV sitcom. It gets written off because a good part of the jokes are juvenile (though well-written juvenile). It’s also underrated for what it did for the FOX network. Yes, _The Simpson’s_ really sprang the network, but **MWC** laid the foundation. It’s the first show that got people talking about the “Fourth Network”. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-sitcom-of-all-time/311955/94 "2005-07-14T17:11:31Z")
**Dweebs** (well, _I_ liked it, anyway…) 🙂 **Anything But Love** with Richard Lewis. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-sitcom-of-all-time/311955.md?page=4)